THUNDERBOLTS* Director Confirms Avengers Tower Is Now Owned By Val And Has Been Renamed [SPOILER]

THUNDERBOLTS* Director Confirms Avengers Tower Is Now Owned By Val And Has Been Renamed [SPOILER]

The Super Bowl trailer for Thunderbolts* confirmed that Valentina Allegra de Fontaine now owns Avengers Tower and filmmaker Jake Schreier has shared some additional details, including its new name...

By JoshWilding - Mar 07, 2025 10:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Thunderbolts
Source: Empire Online

There have been rumblings for several months that CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine is the new owner of Avengers Tower. The building was sold way back in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming, though Marvel Studios has waited until Thunderbolts* to reveal who bought it from Tony Stark.

The latest Thunderbolts* trailer confirmed that Val owns the building and that she's making some changes to it, adding a structure with a striking similarity to The Sentry's Watchtower on top. 

Talking to Empire Online, filmmaker Jake Schreier confirmed Avengers Tower has now been renamed the "Watchtower" and teased, "We know what that tower means. Who’s the person you would least like to own that tower, that means so much to so many people? Can you use that as a symbol of things taking a darker turn?"

Part of that darker turn with be Val's man-made superhero The Sentry unleashing hell on New York City as The Void. We're still not entirely sure how that's going to play out - we have some theories - or what his MCU future looks like, but it can't be a coincidence that Avengers Tower is now the Watchtower.

Sebastian Stan also spoke to the site and addressed his return as Bucky Barnes. "It’s like the Al Pacino quote from Godfather III," he joked. "Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in. Bucky is going to come across this group, and realise that they’re quite similar, in a way, to him. So I think he feels he can contribute and be a leader."

A new still from Thunderbolts* has also been released highlighting Val alongside Geraldine Viswanathan's character (who is rumoured to be a new take on Songbird). Take a closer look at that below. 

In Thunderbolts*, Marvel Studios assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes - Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, these disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Will this dysfunctional group tear themselves apart, or find redemption and unite as something much more before it’s too late?

The cast of Thunderbolts* will be led by Florence Pugh as Yelena Boleva, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Lewis Pullman as "Bob."

Written by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin, and Joanna Calo, and directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts* is currently set to be released in theaters on May 5, 2025.

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WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 3/7/2025, 10:46 AM
10 bucks they're going to play "All Along the Watchtower" during the film
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/7/2025, 11:08 AM
@WhatIfRickJames -

I sure hope so!
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 3/7/2025, 11:25 AM
@WhatIfRickJames - One of my favorite Vietnam war era songs.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/7/2025, 11:45 AM
@WhatIfRickJames - That was written by Timothy Chalomet.
cadunovaes01
cadunovaes01 - 3/7/2025, 11:52 AM
@WhatIfRickJames - Zack Snyders Watchmen did use this song!
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 3/7/2025, 12:02 PM
@ObserverIO - User Comment Image
Goldboink
Goldboink - 3/7/2025, 12:46 PM
@WhatIfRickJames -

No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey
RolandD
RolandD - 3/7/2025, 8:23 PM
@cadunovaes01 - Well it was quoted in the comic as Daniel and Rorschach were approaching Ozymandias’s digs.
RolandD
RolandD - 3/7/2025, 8:24 PM
@Goldboink - After Dylan heard the version by Hendrix, he said the song was now his.
RolandD
RolandD - 3/7/2025, 8:25 PM
@RolandD - Edit button, please.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 3/7/2025, 10:48 AM
Considering how big of a thing the Watchtower is in DC, it's a weird choice.
gmit92
gmit92 - 3/7/2025, 10:53 AM
@Urubrodi - but that’s what Sentry’s tower is canonically called in Marvel…so no, not that weird.

And it occupies the same spot as Stark Tower in the comics (slightly different plane of existence so they overlap in space) so this makes sense to me
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 3/7/2025, 11:32 AM
@gmit92 - Touche, completely forgot about this, you are right. When I read Watchtower, Justice League's headquarters was the only thing that came to mind.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 3/7/2025, 12:42 PM
@gmit92 - I thought it was just "forgot" or invisible due to mass hypnosis or whatever? when they remembered it just appeared? Im not sure ive only read the original sentry comics and a couple issues with him in it from other character runs. Im curious how they are going to portray the void. If that is the watchtower from the comics is it there to make people forget or is it there to mind control sentry or just an easter egg? They really could have used sentry as an avengers thanos level threat if done like the original run. I thought that run was done really well and creative in how it played out
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 3/7/2025, 10:52 AM
The CIA party when they moved in.

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BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 3/7/2025, 11:11 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea -

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abd00bie
abd00bie - 3/7/2025, 12:42 PM
@BlackStar25 - Height accurate lol
movieguy18
movieguy18 - 3/7/2025, 10:52 AM
Everything coming out for THUNDERBOLTS* is just hitting all of the right beats for me. So stoked for the MCU! Let’s gooooo!
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 3/7/2025, 11:18 AM
@movieguy18 - Marketing looks great except for that godawful superbowl trailer.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 3/7/2025, 10:54 AM
So far we know that the United States is in an arms race with the world for Adamantium. Val is working for either a Nefarious Organization or for the United States directly with her antics. We also know that Wakanda has positioned itself to go to war with anyone who tries to come for Vibranium.
JstaKIDfrmBKLYN
JstaKIDfrmBKLYN - 3/7/2025, 12:04 PM
@SonOfAGif - I actually wouldn't mind if the third Black Panther movie would be Wakanda and Talocan vs. the World or whoever.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 3/7/2025, 10:55 AM
it'd be nice if the void throws her off that tower
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/7/2025, 10:58 AM
Funnily enough ,Stark /Avengers Tower becoming the “Watchtower” is “comic accurate” in a way…

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Also I like what I’m hearing about Bucky’s role in this so far as this “elder statesman” who has gone through his journey of finding redemption & purpose and is trying to pay it forward now.
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 3/7/2025, 11:08 AM
This looks great. Can’t wait.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 3/7/2025, 11:09 AM
None of these movies excite me anymore
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/7/2025, 11:10 AM

They better do something spectacular.

How bad will things get if they lay down another limp flop like FalCap BNW?

KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 3/7/2025, 11:18 AM
@DocSpock -


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This bad.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/7/2025, 11:31 AM
@KennKathleen -

urrpp...
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 3/7/2025, 12:24 PM
@KennKathleen - hey I loved all those turtle movies as a kid! would I think differently if I rewatched them now... maybe
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/7/2025, 1:07 PM
@DocSpock -

We are looking at a string of financial under-performances and box office bombs all the way to Avengers Doomsday and even that likely will under-perform - considering that it's a $400m+ budget (So around $1bn break-even) and likely going to wind up being a bigger scale than Infinity War they'd likely be hoping for $2bn.

I wonder if Avengers Doomsday will even make a profit at this point, the concept art looked like the film was a disaster of characters nobody knows in a goofy medieval setting.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/7/2025, 1:49 PM
@Scarilian -

I am worried about that. I was a diehard MCU all the way through Endgame. The only movies I have liked since are Spidey NWH & Dr. Strange MOM. The D+ shows have mostly sucked too.

This is getting depressing.

Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/7/2025, 2:04 PM
@DocSpock -
"This is getting depressing."

Yeah, feel the same. It's at the point where I don't expect any of it to be good. I'm curious to see what they do with some of it, but it's sort of a morbid curiosity the same way I ended up seeing the last few DCEU films.

I truly think if we see the 2025 films fail to break-even and Avengers Doomsday & Secret Wars under-perform then it'll be over for this iteration of the characters. Perhaps we'd get one or two straggler films but generally it's at a time where it needs to stop. They can't keep throwing things out that are not good because it's destroyed this franchise narratively.

They've not learned any lessons or improved, we're seeing the same problems in everything they produce and there's too much baggage where even good elements are drowned by what it is built on.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/7/2025, 2:21 PM
@Scarilian -

I am also worried that if Doomsday/Secret Wars may be really good, but nobody will even care by then.

I think they have mostly already lost the general audience, and what they have left are people like us who desperately, maybe stupidly, hope beyond hope they will make something great again.

I think we are witnessing the back end of the Rise and Fall of the Marvel Empire.

KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 3/7/2025, 2:28 PM
@NonPlayerC -
TMNT 1: 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👍🏼👍🏼

TMNT 2: 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👍🏼👍🏼

TMNT 3: 💩💩💩💩😳👎🏼👎🏼
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/7/2025, 11:41 AM
Should have made it the Baxter Building.
Vigor
Vigor - 3/7/2025, 12:47 PM
@marvel72 - maybe after f4 lands in their universe
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 3/7/2025, 11:55 AM
Looking forward to this. Since Bethel is back as Bullseye it would have been cool to have him in the team, but he's probably too evil haha. Pure psycho.
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